Fertility in Ethiopia, 2025

Ethiopia
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.81
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Ethiopia is projected at 3.81 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (193 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.0 years old. In total, 4,176,742 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.81
Births
4,176,742
Births per 1,000 people
30.8
Mean age of mothers
29.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.73
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
135,472,051
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-140.50.1%4,135
15-1966.28.7%482,597
20-24181.323.7%1,219,809
25-29192.825.3%1,120,087
30-34157.820.7%768,816
35-39107.714.1%415,865
40-4448.16.3%142,305
45-498.81.2%22,257
50-540.40.1%867